I totally recommend BGE Home.

My situation is described here -- #2 (and when I said it's been happening for a while I mean ... YEARS!!!)

Monday morning I went to the BGE Home website and scheduled the appointment online (YAY! for that, if you know me you know I HATE talking on the phone and usually avoid it at all costs :P).

You pick a day and then time period... ie AM or PM. I picked AM. Which means they can come anytime between 7:30am and 12:30pm. They call when they are on their way... no answer means they move on to the next appointment! 7:35am my phone rang ( I was ready!)... The repair guy said he was on his way and would be here in approximately 30 minutes... and he was! Less than 45 minutes later and he was done...I thought the price was reasonable... and he even adjusted the fridge so that the front is higher than the back (this has something to do with the door closing...)

I was very pleased :D

Luckily it's very short!

1. Get the ceiling in the Kitchen/Living Room/Dining Room painted. - - You may be asking yourself why... The reason is I used to put Yankee Candles ( the big 22 oz jars) on my countertop that divides the Kitchen and Dining Room... and after a few years it caused a nice brownish discoloration to form. It wasn't obviously noticeable... but I knew it was there so of course it bothered me. So about 2 years ago when I painted my kitchen cabinets white... I had the brilliant idea to attack the spot with the white paint! Bad idea because it didn't match the ceiling white :( And now it is very noticeable (as my mother likes to point out whenever she comes over :P). So I need to get an estimate and have it painted...
2. Have someone look at Refrigerator - It's dripping water from the freezer area into the fridge part. This has been happening for a while... actually and I have been using a cup to catch the water (and then water plants - see I can "think green" when I want to! :P) But since you can't sell like that it needs to be fixed. Google-ing assures me that it is a common problem, and easily fixable... (something about water draining from the freezer... some hose may be clogged). BGE Home is scheduled to come Wendesday morning!

There may be more after a real estate agent gets in there...so we shall see!

Track Santa's journey online :D

I managed to show some major shopping restraint today....

So my Daily Shop-It-To-Me alert arrived.. and Ann Taylor Loft was having a major sale... and the pictured handbag caught my eye.

But I thought A) I already have a "quilted" black handbag and B) I already have a hobo style black handbag.

So I restrained myself from adding to cart (oh and I thought about the impending house search :))

Perhaps I should unsubscribe from these shop-it-to-me alerts ? :P

Don't watch if you've never seen 6 Weeks. (cause this is the end!)

I have been thinking for a while that if my job was looking stable around May 2009... I would seriously start looking into moving into DC (I work in SW). Job looks very stable...and this event of 2 weeks ago may have finally been the straw that broke the camel's back.

I love my condo. I bought it new about 7 years ago (after a horrific experience with a real estate agent that I am not looking forward to repeating) with NO HELP FROM MY PARENTS! I have painted every room (except the master bedroom) by myself, I picked out the flooring myself. I bought curtains and furniture, and all kinds of other things...I love the location - can't beat being halfway between DC and Baltimore

My commute is not terrible but I want to live in the city.... (and luckily DC just approved Verizon to bring in FIOS)

I hate that we have a never ending trail of renters rolling through the building that have no respect for anything or anyone.

My employer is going through a major growth spurt (good thing in these rough economic times)! So the branding is on the upswing.... today we all got shirts (Land's End polo's with the company name embroidered on the top corner)... The guys got gray shirts... the gals (of which there are 3) got pink!


Am I odd for thinking that is odd??

Perhaps the owner just really thinks I am a fan of pink.... (MacBook Pro Skin is Hot Pink; iPod is green, bit I have a pink skin for it (with stripes... so the green partially shows through), and a new pink skin for my BlackBerry). :D

In your work life, things are about to get busy -- so you might want to tidy up your work area so that you can be ready for the onslaught.

You have no idea!

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on NBC tonight!

on ABC tonight! Linus rocks!!!




.... and i want my rug back :(